Again, based on recollections, what got me immediately interested was that I regarded C as a "portable assembler". It was one of the earliest implementations of "write-once-run-anywhere".
From: "Tyler Adams" <coppero1237@gmail.com>
To: "The Eunuchs Hysterical Society" <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2020 11:27:26 AM
Subject: [TUHS] History of popularity of C
Does anybody have any good resources on the history of the popularity of C? I'm looking for data to resolve a claim that C is so prolific and influential because it's so easy to write a C compiler.